"When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn't work out ... ... "He goes, how do you think I should handle it and I told him exactly what you just said, Omarosa, which is well, it depends on what scenario you are talking about. And he said, well, why don't you just go ahead and put it to bed." ... "No one ever denied the existence of conversations about a reported 'Apprentice' tape....

The US Air Force paid $480 million for a second top-spec hypersonic missile prototype to gain ground “in the era of great power competition,” following reports of Russia’s successes in developing unrivaled high-speed weapons ... ....

Eight people are reportedly injured ... The head of the local ambulance service said there were “dozens of dead”, Italian news agency Adnkronos earlier reported ... “Oh god, oh, god.” Other images showed a green truck that had stopped just yards short of the gaping hole in the bridge ... It is 295ft high and just in excess of three-quarters of a mile long, with the longest section between supports measuring 650ft....

The defense for Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort rested its case on Tuesday morning without calling any witnesses in the ongoing bank and financial fraud trial against the former political lobbyist, according to CNN. The decision is a common but risky legal move as both sides will now prepare for closing arguments on Wednesday morning. Manafort informed JudgeT.S ...Ellis said closing arguments will begin at 9.30 a.m....

The bus was traveling to Quito when it struck a smaller vehicle at around 3 a.m. on a highway just outside the Ecuadorean capital. Col ... Several ambulances responded to the remote crash site just before Dawn outside Quito where they found the severely damaged bus overturned and several homes along the highway also damaged with metal debris from the wreck scattered all over the area ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....

In an series of unprecedented moves Tuesday, the US state of Nebraska not only carried out its first execution in nearly a generation, but authorities used the powerful opioid fentanyl to carry out the death sentence, the Washington Postreported...Moore had spent more than half his life on death row, the report said ... local time at the state penitentiary in Lincoln, the capital, the report said....

Top royal aides are reported to believe the royal family's handling of the Thomas Markle saga has been inept and feeble and fear it's becoming a crisis after the father of Prince Harry's wife Meghan gave a third explosive interview ... Now Daily Mail columnist Richard Kay reports that he has spoken to past and serving royal aides who believe the response and handling of the whole Thomas Markle affair has been both "inept" and "feeble"....

It’s been a strange three months for the Hawaii island village of Volcano, where thousands of earthquakes have rattled the residents of this small mountainside town since Kilauea began erupting in May ... 'The entire habitat is gone'. Hawaii's natural wonders claimed by lava. Read more ... Twitter ... It was the kind of thing Tripp just couldn’t get used to ... “I originally proposed that we just shouldn’t seat anyone in the first four or five rows.”....

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — An Ethiopian official says a notorious special police force in the country’s Somali region killed 41 people and wounded 20 others as ethnic violence poses a challenge to the reformist new prime minister ... More News ... ....

Police spokesman HansLippens said Tuesday that initial reports indicate that about 80 cars were set ablaze overnight, chiefly in Sweden’s second largest Goteborg and nearby Trollhattan, an industrial city ... No injuries have been reported ... The reason for the fires was unknown ... ....

The president reportedly asked Sessions to reverse his decision at a dinner at the president's Mar-a-Lago resort in March shortly after Sessions made his decision, but the attorney general refused.The president chose Sessions as his nominee for attorney general shortly after he defeated Clinton, and called Sessions "a world-class legal mind."....